Fernando Pessoa Quotes

For I am the size of what I see not my height's size.

Fernando Pessoa

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• A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Things

• When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Nature
  • House

• In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Black
  • Problem
  • Soldiers

• Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Women
  • Help
  • Support

• I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Singer

• However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

  

  Nazim Hikmet
  • Live
  • Die
  • Never

• I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Unhappy

• This country is conducive to making money. Once you learn this lesson and make your first deal, you will really appreciate the tools available to you in the United States, the tools that will help you 'boot-strap' yourself into a large income.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Country
  • Money
  • Help

• When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Feel
  • Same
  • Lonely

• I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Important
  • Help

• School didn't work for me. I hated it.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Work
  • School
  • Me

• When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

  

  Vanna White
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Soup

• There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Good
  • Me
  • Chance

• There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • May
  • Mother
  • Free

• Writing makes you feel better, to get it all out.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Writing
  • You
  • Better

• Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • God
  • Believe
  • Earth

• Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Lidern.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Rose
  • Lust

• I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

• Nvidia's self-driving-car business grew out of a long-standing relationship with auto companies. Car guys used Nvidia chips for computer-aided design, then used Nvidia supercomputer chips to do crash simulations. When the car guys started thinking about autonomous vehicles, Nvidia leaped at the chance to help them solve the problem.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Business

• Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mean
  • Serious
  • Forget

• I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Want
  • Remembered

• Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.

  

  Chuck D
  • People

• For I am the size of what I see not my height's size.

  

  Fernando Pessoa